permission denied

mailman was installed from rpm package in redhat
fedora core 3 cd (system also running redhat fedora 3),
but it hits the following bug while trying to create a
mailing list via cgi... any solutions?

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Bug in Mailman version 2.1.5

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Traceback:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/lib/mailman/scripts/driver", line 87, in
run_main
    main()
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line
55, in main
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Cgi/create.py", line
187, in process_request
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/MailList.py", line
454, in Create
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 65, in
get_listpath
  File "/usr/src/build/471806-
i386/install/usr/lib/mailman/Mailman/Site.py", line 40, in
_makedir
  File "/usr/src/build/475206-
i386/install/usr/lib/python2.3/os.py", line 154, in
makedirs
    mkdir(name, mode)
OSError: [Errno 13] Permission
denied: '/var/lib/mailman/lists/balist'

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Python information:
Variable Value
sys.version 2.3.4 (#1, Oct 26 2004, 16:42:40) [GCC
3.4.2 20041017 (Red Hat 3.4.2-6.fc3)]
sys.executable /usr/bin/python
sys.prefix /usr
sys.exec_prefix /usr
sys.path /usr
sys.platform linux2

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Environment variables:
Variable Value
HTTP_COOKIE
sid=703d3666104d114f75802d8faf257720
SERVER_SOFTWARE Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora)
SCRIPT_NAME /mailman/create
SERVER_SIGNATURE Apache/2.0.52 (Fedora) Server
at 10.3.1.89 Port 80
REQUEST_METHOD POST
SERVER_PROTOCOL HTTP/1.1
QUERY_STRING
CONTENT_LENGTH 136
HTTP_USER_AGENT Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)
HTTP_CONNECTION Keep-Alive
HTTP_REFERER http://10.3.1.89/mailman/create
SERVER_NAME 10.3.1.89
REMOTE_ADDR 10.3.1.55
SERVER_PORT 80
SERVER_ADDR 10.3.1.89
DOCUMENT_ROOT /var/www/html
PYTHONPATH /usr/lib/mailman
SCRIPT_FILENAME /usr/lib/mailman/cgi-bin/create
SERVER_ADMIN root@localhost
HTTP_HOST 10.3.1.89
HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL no-cache
REQUEST_URI /mailman/create
HTTP_ACCEPT image/gif, image/x-xbitmap,
image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash,
application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-
powerpoint, application/msword, application/x-icq, */*
GATEWAY_INTERFACE CGI/1.1
REMOTE_PORT 1443
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE en-us
CONTENT_TYPE application/x-www-form-urlencoded
HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING gzip, deflate

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